Well I have 15k and I would be OK turning it into 187k. I hope he will leave some tips for the pleb :tongue:

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Giving names to vulnerabilities annoys me to no end.

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I'm entering to win a copy! Wishing to relive my youth where I spent countless hours playing Soldat 1.

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It would be fun to play just to get a different feeling of the gameplay and different maps but that will not be a game to gain a stable playerbase.

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This looks like another rendition of classic Alien Breed series known from Amiga. First screenshot with the robot and loading bay is like taken straight from the old series. Some screenshots with the same vibe:

http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/dbs/3201-3300/3233_dbs1.png [External Link]
https://www.ppa.pl/artykuly/pics/sekcje/strefa/alienbreed2/alienbreed2_2.png [External Link]

Colour me interested :)

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Quoting: bgh251f2The problem with the humble monthly is always the same. No guarantee I'll always get a Linux game. I'll probably subscribe for this month and cancel before the end of the month.

Yeah that's a good idea. That's what I did when XCOM2 was in the humble monthly. I would get this one too but unfortunately I already have Civ 6.

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With Windows 10 ISO downloadable from Microsoft website and usable with just a warning Linux will have a hard time growing. Also one can get Windows 10 key for few bucks as used OEM and Microsoft is not revoking them so you can have crippled Windows 10 for free or full professional version for few bucks and it's way better for gaming than Linux. For other people that are not emotionally and technologically attached to Linux it's a no brainer. After Windows 8 disaster Microsoft knew that they need to give out OS for free, that it's no more a product but a platform. That's a major challange to Linux.

I know Liam is going to call on me being pessimist again :) but the time for Linux desktop was Windows Vista disaster, Windows 8 disaster, end of Windows XP support disaster. There were so many moments where Valve teamed up with companies like Red Hat or Canonical could do serious damage. Besides things like home calling, "spying" etc Windows 10 is a really good system so right now for a regular user/gamer there are no real reasons to move to Linux. The only migration scenario that I see right now is the old "I want to learn some stuff".

We need Valve fully commited to Steam Machines and here is what I think would work:
- make it a single model like a regular console
- advertise it as a console with PC funcionality (mouse and keyboard that can be connected without any issues, access to the desktop)
- make some exclusives
- enforce policy for all Steam games that they need to come with graphical settings allowing for minimum 30 FPS on the console within it's lifecycle

Steam Machine experience needs to be on par with PlayStation and Xbox while surpasing it with the numer of starting titles. Did I mention ADVERTISING?!

Having said that the big questions is whether it's a feasible business in 2017/2018. We probably are not far away from gaming as a service playing major role so we will be left with just streaming terminals instead of gaming PCs in the near future and games running in the data centres so it doesn't make any difference to which operating system the games are going to be streamed to. Even if we don't want this new model they will shove it down our throats judging by the microtransactions, lootboxes and an urge of the gaming corporations to have constant monetization on games instead of just initial revenue of a sold copy.

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Guys, to be honest this is it. We already had the best out of the "linux gaming" movement, now it's loosing momentum. There will be some more games but it will not get any better than it is right now. It might get worse though. We will not exit the artificial life support phase unless something happens on the Microsoft - Valve front.

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Quoting: wolfyrionThe biggest surprise that I had with GOG is when I discovered that is a Cypriot based company :D
(I was like no way!!! but then I understood the reasons like all other foreign companies that have a company in my country)

Proof: https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-User-Agreement [External Link]

This Agreement is a contract between you and GOG Ltd, 7 Florinis Street, Greg Tower, 6th floor, 1065 Nicosia, Cyprus and applies to www.GOG.com, your GOG user account, the GOG Downloader, GOG Galaxy, any games or videos or other content which you purchase or access via us, the GOG web forums, GOG customer and technical support and other services we provide to you (we'll just call all this “GOG services” for short).

GOG is owned by CDProjekt which also owns CDProjekt RED (guys behind Witcher series). GOG operates from Warsaw and other offices in Poland however it has something registered in Cyprus for tax purposes as along with Ireland it's European "tax heaven". So instead of paying all the taxes in Poland where the actual work is being done and they have the offices they transfer some of that to Cyprus because they have lower taxes. They probably maintain an office and a "manager" like hundreds of other companies. That's bullshit.

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Another trend. First everyone was doing MOBA games, TF clones, now card games.

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